'Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur' Team on New York-Inspired Animation Style, Diversity in Marvel
and said, ‘We gotta make a show out of this,'” Loter added before voice actor Williams interjected , “But without the name ‘ish’ on it.”
“We started thinking about what New York is,” he told the panel audience. “New York in a lot of animated shows has been misrepresented. New York is not slick. It’s not shiny. It’s grit. It’s got edge.” While what fans see on the screen is important, especially for such a historic Marvel series, producer Flynn noted that the team created an entire process for ensuring who was making the show as reflective of the diverse New York viewers would see onscreen. The end result for their writer’s room was a team that is “100 percent” women and a directing that is currently made up entirely of women as well.
Along with their team behind the scenes, she and Coulden said, they also leaned into Disney production coordinator Allen March, who helped them identify potential onscreen representational opportunities, from main to background characters, and down to their footwear, with Clouden teasing viewers can expect to see Timberlands and Air Force 1’s.